Johann Zoffany, R.A.

Collection of the Zoffany family;

Thence by inheritance to the artist's great-grandaughter, Kate (née Beachcroft) Everard Hesketh (b.1857) , Court Road, Eltham, by 1920;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 23 March 1934, lot 64;

Where acquired by Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Galleries, Chicago;

From whom acquired by Mrs. Leonard Reid (1883-1982);

Thence by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Robert Ingersoll, Chicago;

Thence by descent to the present owners.

V. Manners and G. C. Williamson, John Zoffany, R.A., London 1920, p. 205, reproduced opposite p. 47;

Chicago Sunday Tribune 93, no. 21 (27 May 1934), p. 4, reproduced;

M. Webster, Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810, New Haven 2011, p. 595, reproduced fig. 451.

This charming portrait depicts the artist's eldest daughter, Maria Theresa Louisa (b. 1777), named after Empress Maria Theresa who ennobled the artist as a Baron in December 1776 in recognition of his portraits painted for the royal family.